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The third Gaia data release includes 33.8 million radial velocity measurements, extending to a magnitude of G_RVS = 14. To reach this magnitude limit, spectra were processed down to a signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of 2. In this very low S/N…

The third data release of Gaia was the first to include orbital solutions assuming non-single stars. Here, we apply the astrometric triage technique of Shahaf et al. to identify binary star systems with companions that are not single…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-15 S. Shahaf , N. Hallakoun , T. Mazeh , S. Ben-Ami , P. Rekhi , K. El-Badry , S. Toonen

Context: Unresolved binaries in star clusters can bias stellar and cluster mass estimates, making their proper treatment essential for studying cluster dynamics and evolution. Aims: We aim to develop a fast and robust framework for jointly…

Gaia DR3 provides >181, 000 radial velocity solutions for single-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB1s) which can be used to search for non-interacting compact object+star binary candidates by selecting systems with large mass functions. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 T. Jayasinghe , D. M. Rowan , Todd A. Thompson , C. S. Kochanek , K. Z. Stanek

In a previous article, we obtained the first-ever list of astrometric binary asteroid candidates. Some of these candidates have now been confirmed. In that previous work, however, the details of the statistical methods were not provided.…

RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) are classical tracers of old stellar populations, yet growing evidence suggests the presence of a metal-rich ([Fe/H]>-0.5), intermediate-age (2-7 Gyr) sub-population in the Milky Way disc. Binary evolution,…

The recently published Gaia DR3 catalog of 181327 spectroscopic binaries (SB) includes the Keplerian elements of each orbit but not the measured radial velocities (RVs) and their epochs. Instead, the catalog lists a few parameters that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Dolev Bashi , Sahar Shahaf , Tsevi Mazeh , Simchon Faigler , Subo Dong , Kareem El-Badry , Hans-Walter Rix , Alain Jorissen

We present spectroscopic followup observations of binary systems from the Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) binary catalog that were selected to have large enough mass functions for their companions to be black holes or neutron stars. The selection…

Here we present speckle observations of 16 low-separation ($s<30$ AU) high probability candidate binaries from the catalog by Medan et al., where secondaries typically lack astrometric solutions in Gaia. From these speckle observations, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Ilija Medan , Sébastien Lépine , Zachary Hartman , Keivan G. Stassun

The catalog of wide binary stars by El-Badry et al. (2021) [arXiv:2101.05282], created on the basis of Gaia EDR3 data and including more than a million pairs, was used to analyze Gaia DR3 data obtained independently for their components. By…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Dana A. Kovaleva

Using data from Gaia DR3, we construct a sample of 14,791 gravitationally bound wide pairs in which one of the components is an unresolved binary with an astrometric orbital or acceleration solution. These systems are hierarchical triples,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Pranav Nagarajan , Kareem El-Badry

Context. In the current ever increasing data volumes of astronomical surveys, automated methods are essential. Objects of known classes from the literature are necessary for training supervised machine learning algorithms, as well as for…

Context: this paper describes the detection of wide binary and multiple central stars (CSs) of Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) using the most up-to-date data available from the Gaia Data Release 3 (Gaia DR3). Aims: the objective of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 A. Ali , J. M. Khalil , A. Mindil

The Gaia mission is expected to yield the detection of several thousands of exoplanets, perhaps at least doubling the number of known exoplanets. Although the harvest is expected to occur when the astrometric time series will be published…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Flavien Kiefer , Anne-Marie Lagrange , Pascal Rubini , Florian Philipot

Aims. We introduce a novel way to identify new compact hierarchical triple stars by exploiting the huge potential of Gaia DR3 and also its future data releases. We aim to increase the current number of compact hierarchical triples…

The abundance and properties of planets orbiting binary stars - circumbinary planets - are largely unknown because they are difficult to detect with currently available techniques. Results from the Kepler satellite and other studies…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Johannes Sahlmann , Amaury H. M. J. Triaud , David V. Martin

Precise mass constraints are vital for the characterisation of brown dwarfs and exoplanets. Here we present how the combination of data obtained by Gaia and GRAVITY can help enlarge the sample of substellar companions with measured…

Context. The observed scarcity of brown dwarfs in close orbits (within 10 au) around solar-type stars poses significant questions about the origins of these substellar companions. These questions impact our broader understanding of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 N. Unger , D. Ségransan , D. Barbato , J. -B. Delisle , J. Sahlmann , B. Holl , S. Udry

The hunt for compact objects is on. Rarely seen massive binaries with a compact object are a crucial phase in the evolution towards compact object mergers. In Gaia data release 3 (DR3), the first Gaia astrometric orbital solutions for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 S. Janssens , T. Shenar , H. Sana , S. Faigler , N. Langer , P. Marchant , T. Mazeh , C. Schürmann , S. Shahaf

We search for compact objects in binaries based on Gaia DR3. A sample of ten targets is derived under the conditions: radial velocity variable, low temperature ($T_{\rm eff} < 6000$ K), high mass function ($f(M_2) > 1 M_\odot$), and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Jin-Bo Fu , Wei-Min Gu , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Tuan Yi , Sen-Yu Qi , Ling-Lin Zheng , Jifeng Liu